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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

We are happy to announce the 4th of 9 Mellon Seminars in Digital Humanities taking place at UCLA in RL, and "broadcast" via live feed into the Digital Library Federation's (DLF) SL island, Entropia. The RL participants will also see the SL audience, projected on a screen in the RL room at UCLA.

These Seminars, organized and co-taught by Jeffrey Schnapp (Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, UCLA, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Founder of the Stanford Humanities Laboratory) and Todd Presner ((Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature, UCLA), take place at intervals during the 2008/2009 academic year. To find out more about this series of Seminars: http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu

Please note that the time for each Seminar is U.S. Pacific Time.

DATE & TIME: Monday, January 5, 2009, 2 pm - 5 pm SLT (PST)

SPEAKER: Johanna Drucker, Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA

TOPIC: "Humanities Tools in Digital Contexts” Many of the early approaches to digital humanities have come of age as substantial repositories and archives have become established. Early pioneering projects in editing, collections development, and visualization are now accepted parts of digital humanities' research. But huge challenges -- cultural and intellectual as much as technical -- remain if the humanities are to help shape the next generation of scholarly tools for research and pedagogy. This talk describes a work in progress, I.nterpret, that aims to engage humanistic concerns in a digital environment.

Anyone interested is welcome to attend at UCLA. The SL audience is limited to 50. IMPORTANT: SL attendees only: Please RSVP to Esther Grassian or IM her SL avatar, Alexandria Knight, to reserve a space on Entropia, and for instructions on viewing the live feed and adjusting the audio there.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

We have begun drafting the 2009 Horizon Report, and we are seeking examples! We would love to feature the creative work you are doing.

We are interested in learning about any kind of research, pilot programs, innovative projects, or faculty work happening at your campus in any of the six areas listed below. (See the attached 2009 Horizon Report Preview of the topics for more details.) [Note: Contact Esther Grassian estherg@library.ucla.edu for a copy of the Preview in pdf.] Our goal is to help readers understand the potential impact of these technologies and their applications on teaching, learning, or creative expression.

Here are the six areas the Advisory Board has identified for this year's report:

Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less Mobile Cloud Computing

Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years Geo-Everything The Personal Web

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years Semantic-Aware Applications Smart Objects

The Time-to-Adoption Horizon indicates how long the Advisory Board feels it will be until a significant number of campuses are providing or using each of these technologies or approaches broadly. Of course, a number of innovative NMC faculty and campuses are already working in some of these areas, and those are the very efforts we want to highlight. Of special interest are any activities that have a significant web presence so that a URL might be included in the report.

If you know of examples we could include, please reply directly to me at rachel@nmc.org as soon as you can. We hope to have your examples by Wednesday, Dec. 17, but no matter what, we'd love to hear about what you are doing! All we really need is a sentence of description and a URL -- we'll do the rest.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Sent to you by Carolina Keats via Google Reader: President Elect ObamaAppoints Two SL Innovators to his Team! via SLED® Blog by scottmerrickon 12/1/08

Wagner James Au has scooped us all, of course, and thanks to @malburnsof twitter for posting it there, but I’m sharin’ out here. According toNew World Notes posted minutes ago, President Elect Barak Obama hasappointed two experts on virtual environments to his real world teamfor creating an “Innovation Agenda,” a promising innovation in and ofitself!

According to Au (citing a news item in the Washington Post), New YorkLaw School professor Beth Noveck and Irving Wladawsky-Berger, aChairman Emeritus of IBM, have been announced as key members of thenewly appointed group.

Editor Carol Smallwood, MLS, has written, co-authored, edited 19 books such as Educators as Writers for Scarecrow, Libraries Unlimited, Peter Lang, and others. Her work has appeared in English Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, The Detroit News, Poesia, and several others including anthologies. Pudding House Publications published her chapbook, 2008; Words and Images of Belonging co-edited with Aurorean editor is with an agent; a recent anthology ishttp://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3

Possible topics: marketing, online publishing, where to send your work, diversity in publication, ideas from students for YA books, locating publishers for your books, storytellers turned picture book authors, networking, using a technology edge, promoting your books at conferences. Using issues librarians face such as censorship in poetry, essays, memoir, short stories, columns.

The deadline for current cycle of completed submissions is January 15, 2009.

Please submit 3-4 topic proposals/titles with a 65-70 word bio beginning with your library of employment, highlighting your publications. Place LIBRARIANS/your name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net

Articles by practicing academic, public, school, special librarians sharing their experiences on how U.S. librarians are not tied to computers inside libraries: how librarians partner, outreach, and market libraries in their communities. Librarians with ethnic backgrounds serving diverse cultures are encouraged.

No previously published, simultaneously submitted, co-authored material. Two articles sharing the range of your outreach experiences, 1900-2100 words total; for example, one article could be 1000 words, another 900-1100 words on another topic. If you have only one outreach experience, please submit it but contributors with two will receive priority for providing readers more diversity.

Possible topics: workshops at senior centers, story hours at community swimming pools, innovative literacy outreach, partnering with artists and writers, creative youth participation, advocacy with local elected officials, diversity partnerships, archivists working with public schools.

Editor Carol Smallwood, MLS, has written, co-authored, edited 18 books for Scarecrow, Libraries Unlimited, Peter Lang, and others. Her work has appeared in English Journal, The Writer's Chronicle, The Detroit News, and several others including anthologies. Pudding House Publications published her 2008 chapbook, a recent anthology ishttp://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3575-3

The deadline for current cycle of completed submissions is January 15, 2009. Contributor's sign an ALA Writer Agreement before publication. Compensation: a complimentary copy, discount on additional copies.

Please send 3 topic proposals/titles; a 65-70 word bio beginning with your library of employment, title, highlights of your community library outreach activities, awards, and related professional contributions. Place PARTNERS/your name on the subject line to: smallwood@tm.net

The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is inviting nominations for the 2009 Coming Up Taller Awards. In partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), we are embarking on the twelfth year of the Coming Up Taller Awards, which recognizes the accomplishments of exceptional after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs. Coming Up Taller finalists receive $10,000, an individualized plaque, and an invitation to attend the Coming Up Taller Leadership Enhancement Conference.Included with this announcement is the 2009 nomination application and a letter from the federal cultural agency partners. We encourage you to share these or disseminate the link to the Coming Up Taller website www.cominguptaller.org. Please feel free to post this announcement on websites, in newsletters, and in other forms of communication. The deadline for nominations is Friday, January 30, 2009.

If you have questions, please visit our website or contact the President’s Committee at (202) 682-5409.